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Cashless tolling is now in place at the Outerbridge Crossing. Cash payments are no longer accepted. Trucks using the Outerbridge Crossing must pay tolls using the E-ZPass tag or Tolls by Mail. All special (permit) loads-overweight and oversized trucks-must receive a PAPD escort at the Outerbridge Crossing. Cashless tolling works by scanning the E-ZPass tag mounted on a vehicle’s windshield and then charging the toll to the passholder’s account. Vehicles without E-ZPass tags also pass seamlessly through toll points without stopping using Tolls by Mail. Instead of having passes scanned, license plates are photographed and bills are mailed to registered owners to be paid online,Read More →

Last year the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey became the first public transportation agency in the country to embrace the Paris Climate Agreement, a United Nations-sponsored pact to bring the world’s countries together to fight climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In support of the agreement, the Port Authority set an interim target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent by 2025, and a long-term goal to reduce all emissions related to the agency’s facilities by 80 percent by 2050. We have already made progress. Since 2008, the Port Authority has reduced its GHG emissions by 13 percent comparedRead More →

On Friday, April 20, 2018, a team of Port Department volunteers commemorated Earth Day by cleaning up debris and planting flowers in the public spaces of the Brooklyn-Port Authority Marine Terminal (BPAMT), Port Newark, and Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal (EPAMT). Safeguarding the environment of communities in which The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey operates is an ongoing agency tenet. Earth Day however, is an especially significant time when the agency joins with other organizations around the world to spotlight the seriousness of environmental concerns and the potential solutions that can be implemented to alleviate them. More than 40 volunteers participated in theRead More →

The latest Clean Vessel Incentive (CVI) program offered by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is off to a flying start. Twenty-one companies enrolled in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s latest CVI during Q1 2017 for an increase of 24 percent over companies who enrolled in Q1 2016. In addition, 272 qualifying vessels registered with the CVI program during Q1 2017 representing an increase of 7 percent over Q1 2016. Financial incentives earned by CVI participants in Q1 2017 totaled $515,500, which represents an increase of 32 percent compared to Q1 2016. “These are very encouraging numbers,” saidRead More →

In 2014, Global Container Terminals (GCT), a tenant of the Port of New York and New Jersey joined Green Marine, a voluntary environmental certification program for the North American marine industry. Through its set of 12 performance indicators, Green Marine sets higher benchmarks for air, land, and water emissions than those set by government regulations so that the entire maritime industry can work toward a more sustainable future. During its recent re certification process, each of GCT’s four terminals achieved higher scores than they set in their initial certification in each of Green Marine’s indicators. This accomplishment was sufficient to award GCT the “Excellence &Read More →